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• U.S. Web sales move closer to Christmas
LOS ANGELES - U.S. shoppers head to the Web on the Monday after Thanksgiving, a day that has become known as "Cyber Monday," but retailers say peak online shopping is coming later and later in the season as shipping improves. Web retailers anticipate ...
• Target, Lowe’s revise sales outlook downward
NEW YORK - Two of the nation's leading retailers — discounter Target Corp. and home improvement merchant Lowe's Cos. — both tempered their sales forecasts on Monday, creating more uncertainty about the upcoming holiday shopping season. Target ...
• Tomato scare means business for local growers
The federal government said Wednesday that 383 people had fallen ill with salmonella, causing sleepless nights for commercial tomato distributors worried that the scare could cause a long-term drop in sales. Large growers, grocers and restaurateurs ...
• Citi: Wells Fargo-Wachovia sale blocked
The litigation pits two of the largest remaining financial institutions against one another as the ongoing credit crisis leads the federal government to arrange marriages and sales among banking entities. Wells Fargo, Wachovia and Citigroup did not ...
• British Airways to launch new direct service
We don't intend to be a mass-market type of vehicle," said Dale Moss, British Airways' former director of worldwide sales, who will serve as the new venture's managing director. "We're a very special point-to-point application." OpenSkies will draw on ...